⛰️ Hart Side

756 m · Wainwright — Eastern Fells · Birketts to bag nearby, parking, buses, my hikes and live summit weather.

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756 mWainwright — Eastern Fells✓ summit is also a Birkett+10 bonus Birketts within 3 km

📖 Key Information

Hart Side at 756m (2,480ft) is a broad, grassy summit between Stybarrow Dodd and the Ullswater shoreline, giving commanding views over the eastern shores of the lake and across to the High Street range. Wainwright described it as a fell of wide-ranging views, particularly east to the Pennines and north down the Vale of Eden. Reached from Dockray or Glenridding, usually combined with Sheffield Pike for a fine Ullswater circuit. Its open, grassy summit plateau is pleasant walking on a clear day, offering a quieter alternative to the busy Helvellyn ridges to the west.

Free mapping: OpenTopoMap / OpenStreetMap (switch layers top-right). Parking positions are approximate.

🎯 Bonus Birketts within 3 km

These Birkett tops are not Wainwright summits — detour to them on this walk and they are pure profit. Distances are straight-line; allow extra for terrain.

0.6 km EBirkett Fell725 m · Eastern
1.2 km SSWGreen Side (White Stones - Green Side)794 m · Eastern
1.7 km NWRanderside729 m · Eastern
1.9 km EBrown Hills551 m · Eastern
1.9 km NNEHigh Brow575 m · Eastern
2.0 km ESwineside Knott553 m · Eastern
2.3 km WNWLittle Dodd (St John's Common)785 m · Eastern
2.4 km NELow How497 m · Eastern
2.4 km SEHeron Pike (Glenridding)612 m · Eastern
2.4 km ENECommon Fell552 m · Eastern

⚠️ Hazard & Incident Information

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🦶 My hikes over Hart Side (Strava)

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🅿️ Potential parking

Dockray (roadside) — 3.4 km from summit (straight line)
Verge parking for the Dodds and Matterdale Common.
Directions ↗
Glenridding (paid) — 3.9 km from summit (straight line)
Main Helvellyn-from-the-east base: Striding Edge, Catstye Cam, Birkhouse Moor; also Sheffield Pike, Glenridding Dodd.
Directions ↗

Positions are approximate — zoom the map to confirm. Lakeland car parks fill before 9am on fine weekends.

🚌 Buses from Penrith / Ambleside / Windermere

Stagecoach 508 “Ullswater Bus”
Penrith – Pooley Bridge – Aira Force – Glenridding – Patterdale (summer services continue over Kirkstone Pass to Troutbeck and Windermere)
Catch it from: Penrith · Windermere (summer only)
The key route from Penrith for the Eastern and Far Eastern fells: Helvellyn from Glenridding, Place Fell, the Hartsop fells. The summer Kirkstone extension drops you at the pass for Red Screes and Caudale Moor.

Rural routes change seasonally — confirm on stagecoachbus.com or Traveline before relying on a last bus.

🌦️ 7-day summit forecast

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